"to be partly rehabilitated and is considered by some Russian musicologists the ""most successful Russian opera based on Shakespeare."" The music is in a traditional high-spirited opera buffa idiom. Bianka, the youngest daughter of Paduan merchant Baptista Minola, has won the hearts of two young noblemen, Liuchentsio and Gortenzio, who are in competition for her affections. However, Baptista will not allow his youngest daughter to marry until his oldest daughter, the tempestuous Katerina, has married. The two young nobleman conspire together to marry off Katerina so they may freely compete for Bianca. The two men recruit Hortensio's visiting friend, the"
"Richard Burton. The 1999 high school comedy film ""10 Things I Hate About You"" is also loosely based on the play. ""Characters appearing in the Induction:"" Prior to the first act, an induction frames the play as a ""kind of history"" played in front of a befuddled drunkard named Christopher Sly who is tricked into believing that he is a lord. The play is performed in order to distract Sly from his ""wife,"" who is actually Bartholomew, a servant, dressed as a woman. In the play performed for Sly, the ""shrew"" is Katherina, the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola, a"
"""Romola"" (1863), E. R. Eddison's ""A Fish Dinner in Memison"" (1941), Irving Stone's ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"" (1961), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's ""The Palace"" (1978), Michael Ondaatje's ""The English Patient – part two"" 1992, Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's ""If at Faust You Don't Succeed"" (1993), Timothy Findley's ""Pilgrim"" (1999), Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's ""Rule of Four"" (2004), the novel ""I, Mona Lisa"" by Jeanne Kalogridis (2006), the Showtime series ""The Borgias"", The Sky (Italy) and Netflix (North America) series ""Borgia"", and ""The Botticelli Affair"" by Traci L. Slatton (2013). Other references in popular culture include these: Bonfire of"
"Desdemona (play) Desdemona is a play by Toni Morrison. It was first produced in Vienna in May 2011. The title character of the play is Desdemona, the wife of the title character in Shakespeare's Othello. The 2011 play arose from a collaboration between Morrison, director Peter Sellars, and musician Rokia Traoré, and revolves around Desdemona's relationship with the African nurse who raised her. Morrison's play marks the third major play focusing on Shakespeare's Desdemona composed by a modern female playwright, following ""Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief"" (1993) by Paula Vogel, and ""Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"" (1988) by Ann-Marie"
"23 December 2001. Bianca (Othello) Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""Othello"" (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan, although this occupation is not specifically designated in the drama. The character was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds. Bianca is not to be confused with Bianca Minola in Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"". ""Othello"" has its source in the 1565 tale ""Un"
"MacDonald. All three plays have highly divergent interpretations of the character of Desdemona. The official playscript of ""Desdemona"" was published in 2012 by Oberon Books, with a foreword written by the director Peter Sellars. Desdemona (play) Desdemona is a play by Toni Morrison. It was first produced in Vienna in May 2011. The title character of the play is Desdemona, the wife of the title character in Shakespeare's Othello. The 2011 play arose from a collaboration between Morrison, director Peter Sellars, and musician Rokia Traoré, and revolves around Desdemona's relationship with the African nurse who raised her. Morrison's play marks"
"play ""Cupid's Revenge."" (The name ""Andromana"" derives from ancient Greek; the formidable women of ancient Sparta were known as ""Andromanae."") ""Andromana"" also shows the influence of Robert Burton's ""The Anatomy of Melancholy"", as mediated through the plays of John Ford. Plangus, Prince of Iberia, from Book 2 of the ""Arcadia,"" is the royal protagonist of the play, though the primary focus, as the title indicates, is on the heroine/villainess Andromana, the Prince's adulterous commoner lover. (Once her husband dies early in the play, drowning ""at the Rialto,"" she is no longer an adulteress, but she remains a villainess; the play's"
"Petruchio Petruchio (an anglicisation of the Italian name Petruccio; ) is the male protagonist in Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (c. 1590–1594). Petruchio is a fortune seeker who enters into a marriage with a strong-willed young woman named Kate and then proceeds to ""tame"" her temperamental spirit. The role has attracted notable performers. In the play, Petruchio comes to the town of Padua in the hopes of marrying a wealthy woman. Hortensio suggests that he marry Kate Minola, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the city, particularly because Hortensio can not court her sister Bianca until"
"as his queen to the satisfaction of Almirena and Ernesto who can now be reunited. Rambaldo, who confesses to have stirred up the nobles in the hope of winning Griselda, is forgiven. Griselda (Giovanni Bononcini) Griselda is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Giovanni Bononcini. The opera uses a revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"" (X, 10, ""The Patient Griselda""). The Italian poet Paolo Antonio Rolli was hired to revise the text. Bononcini's opera premiered in London at the King’s Theatre on 22"
"of love in this exchange: Gremio and Tranio literally bid for Bianca. As Baptista says, ""'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both/That can assure my daughter greatest dower/Shall have my Bianca's love"" (2.1.344–346). The first opera based on the play was Ferdinando Bertoni's opera buffa ""Il duca di Atene"" (1780), with libretto by Carlo Francesco Badini. Frederic Reynolds' ""Catherine and Petruchio"" (1828) is an adaptation of Garrick, with an overture taken from Gioachino Rossini, songs derived from numerous Shakespeare plays and sonnets, and music by John Braham and Thomas Simpson Cooke. Starring Fanny Ayton and James William"
"Bianca (Othello) Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""Othello"" (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan, although this occupation is not specifically designated in the drama. The character was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds. Bianca is not to be confused with Bianca Minola in Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"". ""Othello"" has its source in the 1565 tale ""Un Capitano Moro"" from"
"Castelow as Perdita. This production will be re-broadcast on 6 May 2018. An opera by Ryan Wigglesworth, based on the play, was premiered at the English National Opera on February 27, 2017. The Winter's Tale The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's ""problem plays"" because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are"
"he criticizes his brother's caution and passivity. Roberto allows Bertoldo to lead a contingent of volunteers to Ferdinand's assistance—as long as it is understood by all concerned that their mission is unofficial and will receive no direct support from the Sicilian monarch. This is Roberto's way of ridding his kingdom of troublesome malcontents, especially Bertoldo. The play's second scene introduces Camiola, the title character. Her ""beauty, youth, and fortune"" make her the target of several suitors, including: Signior Sylli, a ridiculously vain ""self-lover;"" Fulgentio, the corrupt and egomaniacal favorite of the king; Adorni, a retainer of Camiola's late father; and"
"questions in Shakespeare's text. Companies have also chosen to share the role between several actors during a performance. Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald's 1988 award-winning play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a revision of ""Othello"" and ""Romeo and Juliet"" in which an academic deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. ""Othello"" opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London on 4 December 2007, directed by Michael Grandage, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello, Ewan McGregor as Iago, Tom Hiddleston as Cassio, Kelly Reilly as Desdemona and Michelle Fairley"
"Caterina, terrified, begs her husband to have mercy on them (Aria: ""Lascia in prima"" / ""Let at least""). But both Arturo and San Megrino are killed by the soldiers of the Duke. The Duke throws Caterina the handkerchief that aroused his suspects and Caterina curses him (Finale: ""Ah! m'uccidi"" / ""You are killing me""). Notes Sources Caterina di Guisa Caterina di Guisa is an opera in two acts by Carlo Coccia to a libretto by Felice Romani based on ""Henry III and His Courts"" by Alexandre Dumas. ""Caterina di Guisa"" premiered on 14 February 1833 at the Teatro alla Scala"
"Desdemona Desdemona () is a character in William Shakespeare's play ""Othello"" (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish man several years her senior. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adulteress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse. The role has attracted notable actresses through the centuries and has the distinction of being"
"work with singers Julian Patrick (Petruchio) and Anna Moffo (Katharina). The Taming of the Shrew (Giannini) The Taming of the Shrew is an opera in three acts by composer Vittorio Giannini. The work uses an English language libretto by Dorothy Fee and the composer which is based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The opera premiered at the Cincinnati Music Hall on January 31, 1953 in a concert performance starring Dorothy Short as Katharina, Robert Kircher as Petruchio, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Thor Johnson. Considered Giannini's most popular work, it was one of three finalists named"
"and the historical Antony and Cleopatra, it is no surprise that Shakespeare includes numerous allusions to Virgil's epic in his historical tragedy. As Janet Adelman observes, ""almost all the central elements in ""Antony and Cleopatra"" are to be found in the ""Aeneid"": the opposing values of Rome and a foreign passion; the political necessity of a passionless Roman marriage; the concept of an afterlife in which the passionate lovers meet."" However, as Heather James argues, Shakespeare's allusions to Virgil's Dido and Aeneas are far from slavish imitations. James emphasizes the various ways in which Shakespeare's play subverts the ideology of"
"Anna Bolena Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (""tragedia lirica"") in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's ""Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena"" and Alessandro Pepoli's ""Anna Bolena"", both recounting the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII. It is one of four operas by Donizetti dealing with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, ""Il castello di Kenilworth"" (1829), ""Anna Bolena"" (1830), ""Maria Stuarda"" (named for Mary, Queen of Scots, it appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835), and ""Roberto Devereux"" (1837, named for"
"Maria Stuarda Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera (""tragedia lirica""), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play ""Maria Stuart"". The opera is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including ""Anna Bolena"" (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), ""Roberto Devereux"" (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and ""Il castello di Kenilworth"". The lead female characters of the operas ""Anna Bolena"", ""Maria Stuarda"", and ""Roberto Devereux"" are"
"Phaedra's Love Phaedra's Love is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1996 at London's Gate Theatre, directed by the author. The play is a modern adaptation of Seneca's ""Phaedra"". The play explores the brutal nature of love, social relations, nihilism and belief through the example of an affair between a queen and her stepson. It centres more on Hippolytus (the original focuses more on Phaedra), who is rendered lazy and cynical by his upbringing as the son of King Theseus. Unlike classical drama, most of the violent action happens on stage rather than off."
"The Love of the Nightingale The Love of the Nightingale is a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, commissioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company and first performed in 1988 at The Other Place, Stratford. It is an adaptation of the Ancient Greek legend of the rape of Philomela by her brother-in-law Tereus, and the gruesome revenge undertaken by Philomela and her sister Procne. The play takes a feminist look at the ancient tale. The King of Athens, Pandion I, fights a war with Thebes over land. The King of Thrace, Tereus, helps out Pandion, and in return, Pandion allows Tereus to marry"
"starring Nicholas Pennell as Titus, Goldie Semple as Tamora, Hubert Baron Kelly as Aaron and Lucy Peacock as Lavinia. In 2005, German playwright Botho Strauß adapted the play into ""Schändung: nach dem Titus Andronicus von Shakespeare"" (""Rape: After Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare""), also commonly known by its French name, ""Viol, d'après Titus Andronicus de William Shakespeare"". Set in both a contemporary and an ancient world predating the Roman Empire, the adaptation begins with a group of salesmen trying to sell real estate; gated communities which they proclaim as ""Terra Secura"", where women and children are secure from ""theft, rape and"
"Titania Titania () is a character in William Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". In the play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name ""Titania"" for fairy queen characters. In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name ""Titania"" from Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans. Shakespeare's Titania is a very proud creature and as much of a force to contend with as her husband Oberon. She and Oberon are engaged in a marital quarrel over which of"
"Il castello di Kenilworth Il castello di Kenilworth (or, under its original name in 1829, Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth) is a ""melodramma serio"" or tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto after Victor Hugo's play ""Amy Robsart"" (1828) and Eugene Scribe's play ""Leicester"", both of which following from Scott's novel ""Kenilworth"" (1821). Daniel Auber composed another opera on the same subject, ""Leicester, ou Le chateau de Kenilworth"" in 1823. This opera was the first of Donizetti's excursions into the Tudor period of English history, and it was followed in 1830 by"
"taking the lead part. It depicts Matilda’s later life and The Anarchy period after Henry I’s death when she and her cousin Stephen were rivals for the succession. In the concluding part of Flintoff's trilogy, ""Henry II"", which was first performed in October 2018 at Reading's Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin, Matilda is depicted attending the dedication of Reading Abbey over the Easter weekend of 1164. Matilda is also a character in Jean Anouilh's play ""Becket"". In the 1964 film adaptation she was portrayed by Martita Hunt. Alison Pill portrayed Matilda in the 2010 TV miniseries ""The Pillars"
"appears, blocks Parisina's way, and then shows her Ugo's corpse. Parisina is overcome by horror (""Ugo è spento! A me si renda!"") and falls dead. Notes Sources Parisina (opera) Parisina (also known as Parisina d'Este) is an opera (""tragedia lirica""), in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's 1816 poem ""Parisina"". The characters of Parisina and Duke Azzo in both Byron's poem and Donizetti's opera are very loosely based on the historical figures of Parisina Malatesta (the daughter of Andrea Malatesta) and Niccolò III d'Este. ""Parisina"" premiered on 17 March 1833 at the Teatro"
"tale in composing ""Othello"", he departed from it in some details. Brabantio, Roderigo, and several minor characters are not found in Cinthio, for example, and Shakespeare's Emilia takes part in the handkerchief mischief while her counterpart in Cinthio does not. Unlike in ""Othello"", in Cinthio, the ""Ensign"" (the play's Iago) lusts after Desdemona and is spurred to revenge when she rejects him. Shakespeare's opening scenes are unique to his tragedy, as is the tender scene between Emilia and Desdemona as the lady prepares for bed. Shakespeare's most striking departure from Cinthio is the manner of his heroine's death. In Shakespeare,"
"she is reading with reality. In the book Francesca da Rimini is found by her husband with another man. Ugo enters and the couple greet each other. Suddenly Parisina’s maid La Verde bursts in to announce the return of Nicolo d’Este from his hunting trip. The Marquis discovers his own son in bed with his mistress and condemns them both to be beheaded. Parisina (Mascagni) Parisina is a ""tragedia lirica"", or opera, in four acts by Pietro Mascagni. Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's poem ""Parisina"" of 1816. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in"
"flux. As such, audiences may not have been as predisposed to tolerate the harsh treatment of Katherina as is often thought. Evidence of at least some initial societal discomfort with ""The Shrew"" is, perhaps, to be found in the fact that John Fletcher, Shakespeare's successor as house playwright for the King's Men, wrote ""The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed"" as a sequel to Shakespeare's play. Written ""c.""1611, the play tells the story of Petruchio's remarriage after Katherina's death. In a mirror of the original, his new wife attempts (successfully) to tame him – thus the tamer becomes the tamed."
"and Victoria's maid, Attilia are brought into the plot. Another character Virginia is in love with Fidele, and Fortunio turns his attentions on her after he is persuaded falsely that Victoria has betrayed him. After further entanglements and misadventures, the play ends happily with Fortunio marrying Virginia and with further marriages between Fidele and Victoria, Crackstone and Attilia, and Pedante and Medusa. Shakespeare may have been influenced by the play, for example, in the ingredients used by the witch Medusa which are remarkably similar to the ingredients used by the witches in ""Macbeth"" in casting their spells, for example: Fidele"
"being extremely ashamed of the lord-of-creation moral implied in the wager and the speech put into the woman's own mouth."" Katherina is seen as having been successfully tamed, and having come to accept her newly submissive role to such an extent that she advocates that role for others, the final speech rationalises, according to Duthie, in both a political and sociological sense, the submission of wives to husbands. Actress Meryl Streep, who played Katherina in 1978 at the Shakespeare in the Park festival, says of the play, ""really what matters is that they have an incredible passion and love; it's"
"a revival of John Fletcher's ""The Faithful Shepherdess."" Henrietta Maria then presented the sumptuous masque costumes to the King's Men, who had acted Fletcher's play. Saphira/Bellesa Basilino/Moramente Agenor/Genorio/Palante Fidamira/Gemella/Miranda The King Pantamora Camena Melidoro Martiro Bonorio Osorio Timante Votorio Romero Princess Mirabella (not acted, only mentioned by other characters) ""The Shepherd's Paradise"" deals with a mythical pastoral community dedicated to Platonic love, a refuge for unrequited lovers of both genders — ""a peaceful receptacle of distressed minds."" The Shepherd's Paradise is ruled by Bellesa, ""beauty,"" who was certainly played by Henrietta Maria. The heroine of the piece is Fidamira. Much"